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A quiz! part 2

2021-12-08T06:13:11Z

See part 1. I'm skipping around a bit.

(Note, again, that I made the font color gray because my Dreamwidth journal has a dark background and it was the only way I could get it to cooperate. If you have trouble reading, try highlighting the text.)

12. Would you ever go out in public wearing pajamas?

If I wore them, maybe, but I don’t.

13. Have you ever had a lemonade stand?.

Not on my own account - I’m really lacking in entrepreneurial spirit, generally. I think my sister may have had one and I helped out a bit.

14. Do you think you look older or younger than your real age?

Since I started going gray, I think I look my age. I used to get people telling me I looked much younger than my age, but this is another one of those things where I don’t think most people are really good judges, either. This may be because people in sort of the 30-50 year old range (i.e., not real young but not yet visibly aging much) are harder to sort out.

15. Where have you lived throughout your life?

I’ve only ever lived in Texas, mostly in the south & southeast Houston suburbs (and in Galveston, which is the same general area, just a little further out). When I was small we lived in West Texas for a couple of years. I was big enough to remember that - I remember prairie dogs, and the cotton field that was behind our house, among other things. And then a decade or so later, I went to UT, and hung around for a few years afterward - so I was in Austin from the late 70s to the mid-80s.Those are the only two times in my life when I've lived away from this general area I'm in now.

16. Do you want any piercings?

I have pierced ears and that’s plenty.

17. What’s your mouse pad look like?

It’s this one, which I bought a few months ago. Disclaimer: the designer, “Ellie Monroe,” is actually my sister (that's not her real name, of course). But I really like this mouse-pad - I like the design, plus it’s really well-made - and I paid for it myself. I didn’t even tell her I bought it until a good while later. (Really, I feel like mouse-pads should be unnecessary, but the surface of my desk doesn’t seem to lend itself to doing without!)

22. Do you still use a radio or just use your phone/computer for music?

My car radio went out in, like, 2014, and I never bothered to get it fixed. I just use the phone. I listen to podcasts more than I actually listen to music, these days.

23. What kind of socks do you prefer to wear?

None. I hate wearing socks. Luckily I live where it’s not often really necessary.

24. Do you have any family heirlooms?

I have quite a bit of my mother’s stuff, and her parents' and some of my grandmother’s on the other side too. I don’t know that there’s anything really tremendously valuable but I have a lot of their stuff, for sure. I’m not sure that the things that they would have said are heirlooms are the ones I value most. I am very partial to my (maternal) grandma’s very brightly-colored flowered china that my uncle brought back from Vietnam for her. Our dining room furniture came from the other grandma. And then I have a large number of my mother’s quilts, and I watched her make most of them, so I know exactly how much work went into them. And boy, family pictures out the wazoo. I have to force myself to part with that stuff gradually.

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a quiz, part 1

2021-12-05T06:43:38Z

Miriam (fauxklore on Dreamwidth) posted a set of prompts - what I usually call a quiz - and I always used to like doing these back in the Livejournal days so I thought I would tackle them. There were more than this, but this is as far as I've gotten. If I get further later there will be more!

(Note that I made the font color gray because my Dreamwidth journal has a black background. If you can't read it, try changing the font color.)

1. Have you ever been caught outdoors away from shelter during a thunderstorm?

Hmm. I want to say yes, but I don’t remember ever being seriously afraid of being struck by lightning, if that’s what this is meant to be asking about. Just getting wet was common enough that I took it for granted.

2. Did you ever build furniture forts as a child?

I remember using the dining room table as some kind of fort, but moving furniture around to make a fort? Not that I recall. I don’t think my mom would have let us. (We were two girls. We didn’t have boys around the house to come up with really serious troublemaking.)

3. Do you use any medicines daily?

Of course. I’m 61 and I am a cancer survivor, among other issues. I have one of those AM/PM pill things and I use it.

4. When was the last time you used a disposable camera?

Long ago. I think maybe the last time was at somebody’s wedding, long enough ago that their children are now teenagers.

5. When was the last time you flew on a plane?

I’m honestly not sure, but it was some years ago, 2014, maybe? I just decided at some point around then that I wasn’t going to fly any more. I’m claustrophobic and flying just has gotten too triggery for me. Back in the old days when It wasn’t a cattle car I could deal with it, but not any more. My husband flies to Ohio once a year or so and I just make the reservations for him and wave goodbye.

6. How many first cousins do you have?

I’m counting my parents' siblings and their children - my dad grew up in a fairly big family, that's the issue - and I come up with six first cousins (3 of whom were adopted, not that that makes any real difference. Family is family).

7. What’s the longest period of time you’ve gone without sleep?

I’m not sure. More than 24 hours, for sure. But at some point I just pass out, even though I’m a bad sleeper in general.

8. Did the house you grew up in have a big yard?

Well, we moved around a good bit when I was a kid, but the house we lived in longest was a suburban corner lot that’s far bigger than most houses have nowadays. My sister's new house has a tiny back yard, and the front yard isn't much bigger.

9. What has been the most difficult class you’ve ever taken?

I had issues with math as a teenager, algebra in particular. I think it was mostly that I didn’t have the patience to sit and work it all out. I think now that I had undiagnosed ADD, because I never had a lot of trouble with anything I was interested in. (I also think nobody ever bothered to explain what algebra was actually good for.)

10. What’s something that’s much more difficult than a lot of people realize?

I can’t think of anything in particular, although I don’t think most people are very good judges of things like that. I think they tend to overestimate or underestimate. (“Well, I did it so you should be able to, too!”)

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Not-so-odd things

2017-04-26T07:26:04Z

This is part of what was supposedly a "40 odd things" questionnaire, except there's not much that's particularly odd here and there weren't actually 40 questions when I got it. But y'know, that doesn't stop me from doing it anyway. I didn't get around to answering all of these but I'm posting the part I did. (I stole this from Crickwooder, incidentally.)

(Note, because I might as well get this out of the way at the start: any time you ask me what my favorite movie/tv show/color/whatever is, usually I pick at random from a sort of mental shortlist. I rarely actually have one favorite anything, so if anybody bothered to go check from survey to survey my answers are unlikely to match. This does not apply for things like "do you like blue cheese" or "do you like eggnog" which are always going to be resoundingly negative. Well, unless it's "pizza" but nobody ever asks that, somehow.)

Do you like blue cheese? Ugh, no.

Coke or Pepsi? These days I mostly drink tea. For years I was a Diet Coke drinker, and hated Pepsi. Now I think they taste about the same.

Do you own a gun? I don't, but my husband owns several (rifles, not handguns). I have fired a gun exactly once in my whole life.

What flavor Kool-Aid? Grape

What do you think of hot dogs? I eat one occasionally - maybe once a year.

What is your favorite television show? Let's say the collective Marvel stuff on Netflix (Jessica & Luke & the first season of Daredevil, is mostly what I've seen.)

What is your favorite movie? Star Wars (A New Hope, that is)

What do you prefer to drink in the morning? tea (I head straight for Starbucks when I leave the house, usually, though)

Can you do a push-up? I seriously doubt it.

What’s your favorite jewelry? Tiaras. (I love jewelry but I hardly wear any any more. Some of you guys may remember when I used to be all into making jewelry a few years ago, so it's kind of weird. I gave up on earrings because they hurt my ears, and I never liked rings. I wear a bracelet or a pendant once in a while but that's about it.)

What is your hobby? I guess it's nail polish blogging, nowadays. (Not vlogging, which I don't do, just an old-fashioned blog.) (added: in case that interests anybody and you don't already know where it is, it's here.)

Do you have ADD? almost certainly, although I never figured it out until I was an adult

Do you wear glasses? yes

What are your favorite cartoons? Miyazaki movies, does that count? I love Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro, especially.

Current hates? That would have to be the president.

Favorite place to be? Online :)

How did you bring in the New Year? At home with Anderson & Kathy on TV.

What is your favorite color? Today I'm going with the color of the nail polish I'm about to put on, a bright sort of raspberry color.

Can you whistle? No, never could.

What’s in your pockets? I wear middle-aged lady jeans that don't have pockets

What’s your favorite animal? cats

How many TVs in your house? two, one of which we never watch

Do you like to dance? yes, but I'm a terrible dancer.

Do you enjoy camping? I haven't been camping since I was a kid. I liked it then, though.

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